Thunder's Shadow by Sheila Hollinghead

Author:Sheila Hollinghead [Hollinghead, Sheila]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: World War II romance, clean romance, historical, historical romance
Publisher: Sheila Hollinghead
Published: 2014-12-17T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 24—Organizing

Marla picked Laurie and me up the next day, Friday, since her car was roomier. It took us until lunch to clean out and organize the examining room and Mr. Driscoll’s office. I waited to enlist Dr. Driscoll’s help for his desk, not daring to touch his papers without him present.

He’d also have to help me later when we got around to the bookkeeping. We found lots of surprises in and on his desk — two bills that were long overdue, twenty dollars tucked in the back of one of the drawers, the elusive schedule at the bottom of the second drawer, and the carcass of a dead mouse under a pile of catalogues. Several pages of catalogue had been gnawed and pieces of shredded paper were everywhere. No telling how many nests were scattered around this place.

I carried the papers we had sorted to Velma and got her to work filing them. A sour look crossed her face, but she didn’t complain.

While I had helped Dr. Driscoll clean off his desk, Marla and Laurie pulled everything off the shelves in the examining room. Both worked quietly, rarely speaking. When I finished in Dr. Driscoll’s office, they wiped off the shelves while I sorted the supplies.

Some of the supplies were seriously outdated. I didn’t want to throw them away without consulting Dr. Driscoll, so I packed them in boxes to be stored. Some of the equipment was broken beyond repair, and it was thrown in the trash.

Laurie and Marla put the supplies on the shelves as I directed. I was surprised how quickly we finished. It was true that many hands made light work.

Dr. Driscoll came in and checked on us. “Where are the gauzes?” he asked.

I showed him.

“The syringes, the needles?”

“Right over there.” Before he had a chance to ask, I showed him how I had stored the rest of the supplies and explained the reasoning, how it would make it easier when working with the animals. He asked a few more questions and then nodded once.

He pulled me aside. “Take your friends to the C&C and tell them to charge it on my account.”

“Thank you, sir.” A smile crept across my face. “I’ll be back after lunch and tackle the bookkeeping.”

“Fine,” he said, without smiling, and walked away.

I found the girls around the rusty sink in the back room, washing away some of the grime.

“Guess what, ladies?”

“What?” Marla asked with a smile.

Laurie’s eyes narrowed. “Go ahead and tell us. You look like the canary that swallowed the cat.”

I laughed. “You’ve got it backwards. It’s the cat that swallowed the canary.”

She twisted her mouth in a position of disgust. “Nope.” She watched me closely. “Definitely the canary.”

Marla touched her arm lightly. “What’s wrong, Laurie? You sound out of sorts,”

“Nothing.” Laurie shook her head. “Go ahead, Jay. What were you going to tell us?”

I looked at Laurie doubtfully. What had put her in such a bad mood? I decided to ignore her for now. “We get our lunch paid for.

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